Adelomelon

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Adelomelon beckii 38a.jpg | image_caption = shell of ''Adelomelon beckii'' | taxon = Adelomelon | authority = Dall, 1906<ref>Dall (1906). ''Nautilus'' '''19''': 143.</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS"/> | synonyms = * ''Adelomelon (Adelomelon)'' Dall, 1906 * ''Adelomelon (Weaveria)'' Clench & R. D. Turner, 1964 * † ''Eoscaphella'' Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992 · * ''Janeithoe'' Pilsbry & Olsson, 1854 * ''Weaveria'' Clench & Turner, 1964 | type_species= ''Voluta ancilla'' Lightfoot, 1786 }}

'''''Adelomelon''''' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Volutidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|382310|''Adelomelon'' Dall, 1906|25 April 2010}}</ref>

==Taxonomy== Adelomelon Dall; new name for the dull-colored group of South American volutes usually called ''Scaphella'', but not the ''Scaphella'' of Swainson, 1832.<ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27052172 Dall, W. H. (1906). Note on some names in the Volutidae. The Nautilus. 19(12): 143-144] {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

==Description== The medium-sized to large shell is smooth or knobbed. The protoconch is small and smooth with or without a calcarella.

==Species== Species within the genus ''Adelomelon'' include: * † ''Adelomelon altum'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1846) * ''Adelomelon ancilla'' (Lightfoot, 1786)<ref>{{WRMS species|384660|''Adelomelon ancilla'' (Lightfoot, 1786)||25 April 2010}}</ref> * ''Adelomelon beckii'' (Broderip, 1836)<ref>{{WRMS species|384666|''Adelomelon beckii'' (Broderip, 1836)||25 April 2010}}</ref> * † ''Adelomelon cannada'' (Ihering, 1907) * † ''Adelomelon caupolicani'' S. N. Nielsen & Frassinetti, 2007 * † ''Adelomelon colocoloi'' S. N. Nielsen & Frassinetti, 2007 * † ''Adelomelon ellioti'' (Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992) * † ''Adelomelon fordycei'' (Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992) * † ''Adelomelon obesum'' (R. A. Philippi, 1887) * † ''Adelomelon pilsbryi'' (Ihering, 1899) * † ''Adelomelon posei'' F. Scarabino, Martinez, del Río, Oleinik, Camacho & Zinsmeister, 2004 * † ''Adelomelon reconditum'' Frassinetti, 2000 * ''Adelomelon riosi'' Clench & Turner, 1964<ref>{{WRMS species|384670|''Adelomelon riosi'' Clench & Turner, 1964||25 April 2010}}</ref> * † ''Adelomelon suropsilos'' (Stilwell & Zinsmeister, 1992) * † ''Adelomelon valdesiense'' F. Scarabino, Martinez, del Río, Oleinik, Camacho & Zinsmeister, 2004

;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Adelomelon barattinii'' Klappenbach & Ureta, 1966 : synonym of ''Adelomelon (Adelomelon) ancilla'' (Lightfoot, 1786) represented as ''Adelomelon ancilla'' (Lightfoot, 1786) * ''Adelomelon brasilianum'' (Lamarck, 1811):<ref>{{WRMS species|384671|''Adelomelon brasiliana'' (Lamarck, 1811)||25 April 2010}}</ref> synonym of ''Pachycymbiola brasiliana'' (Lamarck, 1811) * ''Adelomelon ferussacii'' (Donovan, 1824):<ref>{{WRMS species|384672|''Adelomelon ferussacii'' (Donovan, 1824)||25 April 2010}}</ref> synonym of ''Pachycymbiola ferussacii'' (Donovan, 1824) * ''Adelomelon indigestus'' Von Ihering, 1908: synonym of ''Adelomelon (Adelomelon) beckii'' (Broderip, 1836) represented as ''Adelomelon beckii'' (Broderip, 1836) * ''Adelomelon paradoxa'' (Lahille, 1895): synonym of ''Odontocymbiola magellanica'' (Gmelin, 1791) * ''Adelomelon scoresbyanum'' (Powell, 1951):<ref>{{WRMS species|384673|''Adelomelon scoresbyana'' (Powell, 1951)||25 April 2010}}</ref> synonym of ''Pachycymbiola scoresbyana'' (A. W. B. Powell, 1951) * ''Adelomelon subnodosa'' (Leach, 1814): synonym of ''Odontocymbiola magellanica'' (Gmelin, 1791)

==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} * Bail P. & Poppe G.T. 2001. ''A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae''. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl.

==External links== * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10576508 Pilsbry, H. A. & Olsson, A. A. (1954). Systems of the Volutidae. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 35(152): 1-36 ] * [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41113583 Clench, W. J. & Turner, R. D. (1964). The subfamilies Volutinae, Zidoninae, Odontocymbiolinae and Calliotectinae in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia. 4: 129-180] * [https://doi.org/10.1029/AR055 Stilwell, J. D.; Zinsmeister, W. J. (1992). Molluscan Systematics and Biostratigraphy. Lower Tertiary La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Research Series 55. American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., ix + 192 pp]

Category:Adelomelon Category:Volutidae Category:Taxa named by William Healey Dall